Chapter 2: Fill Ins

________________ is an organized body of knowledge.

A hypothesis is tentative statement about a relationship between _____________ or ________________.

A ______________relationship is not likely to have occurred by chance.

Theories are ____________ of facts or events.

With a scientific attitude, there is ____________ or _____________about theories until they have been scientifically tested.

A universal statement is a statement that applies to _____________ circumstance.

When every person in the universe or population has an equal chance of being interviewed in a survey, this is called ______________ sampling.

"Most evangelical/born again Christians vote Republican" is a __________________ statement.

A control group is used for _____________.

A ___________statement is a statement that applies to some proportion of circumstances.

Those in a sample are chosen to represent the ______________ of a larger group.

The _____________ is the whole group about which information is desired.

In a random sample, each person in the universe has an ______________chance of being selected in the sample for interviewing.

Sampling error is the range of responses in which a ____________ percent chance exists that the sample reflects the universe.

The halo effect is the tendency of respondents to give "_____________" responses to pollsters.

Field research is directly observing _______________.

_______________ issues are those that people have thought the most about and hold strong and stable opinions on.

A ___________ is an unprofessional pollster who asks "loaded" or "leading" questions simple to produce results favorable to his political candidates or side of an argument.

In-depth investigation of a particular event in order to understand it as fully as possible is a/an _____________.

Data used by social scientist that has been collected by other organizations, government agencies, or researchers is _________________________.